Recommended Posts

In response to many members requesting that new members have a restricted account until some criteria is met, I have implemented a new user group named "Prospects" with some posting

/time criteria. You will see these members with a new group name in purple.

Those who haven't met the criteria yet will be moved into this new category.

The primary restrictions for the Prospects group is the inability to start new topics on most of the forum sections (not all), the number of posts they can post per day, and a restriction on using the PM system.

We will see how this works and make tweaks over time depending on feedback.

56

8

28

Share this post

Link to post

Share on other sites

along with my postings in the member rankings thread, could automatically promote them to the regular member user group based upon 'Reputation' level. it would be automatic and you wouldn't have to give it a second thought as it would be automated.

Edited January 8 by Foxx

Share this post

Link to post

Share on other sites

along with my postings in the member rankings thread, could automatically promote them to the regular member user group based upon 'Reputation' level. it would be automatic and you wouldn't have to give it a second thought as it would be automated.

Share this post

Link to post

Share on other sites

It can be pretty prohibitive, but it’s great for the community overall, I think. New posters need to view it as a time to learn the community and appreciate the posters before their opinion gets to be front and center. We have a ton of posters who come on here and their first post is a thread with a crazy hot take following a game and then Hapless or Scott, or the other mods end up wasting time to close threads. We also get too many trolls, and I assume there are a lot of duplicate accounts made to parrot takes, or rage against something or other without risking the primary.

i don’t want it to be too restrictive, but as someone who watched and read for a long time before joining (and then was even slower to post a new topic/thread) I think this is a fine and helpful standard.

Thanks for the hard work mods- this is a great place to talk bills football. I was upset when the BBMB went dark, and I was happy to find this place.

Share this post

Link to post

Share on other sites

I too am an occasional poster (150 posts in just over a year), but I am here most every day during the season at least. I understand the need to make this type of change, I find the nonsense just as annoying as everyone else. But maybe there could be a timeline to graduate up even if you don't post a lot? Maybe a tier that would allow for more freedom after an amount of time, but could still be demoted with infraction back to prospect (to prevent trolls from circumventing by waiting it out)

Share this post

Link to post

Share on other sites

I think the intention is good. Perhaps it needs some tweaking. Limit it to users that have been members <90-120 days, for example.

This..

I like the idea, for new members, but don't like the ideas of members who have been here for a fair amount of time losing privileges all of a sudden, even if they did use them all that often in the first place.

2

1

2

Share this post

Link to post

Share on other sites

I like the idea, for new members, but don't like the ideas of members who have been here for a fair amount of time losing privileges all of a sudden, even if they did use them all that often in the first place.